Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones.
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I was, being human, born alone I am, being woman, hard beset I live by squeezing from a stone The little nourishment I get.Elinor Morton Hoyt Wylie
Hail, element of earth, receive thy own And cherish, at thy charitable breast, This man, this mongrel beast He plows the sand, and, at his hardest need, He sows himself for seed.
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Honeyed words like bees Gilded and sticky, with a little sting.
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The worst and best are both inclined To snap like vixens at the truth But, O, beware the middle mind That purrs and never shows a tooth.
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We shall walk in velvet shoes Wherever we go Silence will fall like dews On white silence below.
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If you would keep your soul From spotted sight or sound, Live like the velvet mole Go burrow underground. And there hold intercourse With roots of trees and stones, With rivers at their source, And disembodied bones.
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